Day in photos: Aug. 13, 2012

Firefighters of Alcoy and Elda try to extinguish a fire in Torre de Macanes near Alicante, Spain. One person was killed and three injured Sunday as firefighters battled wildfires across Spain, authorities said, the latest victims in a sweltering summer of forest blazes.

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Indian schoolgirls perform during an Independence Day parade rehearsal at The Guru Nanak Stadium in Amritsar. India celebrates its 65th independence anniversary from British rule on August 15.

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A Free Syrian Army fighter helps a woman to run across a street during clashes in Aleppo.

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A woman takes shelter from the sun with her baby (hidden by the straw hat) behind a burnt-out house in Caldono, Colombia. Indigenous authorities claimed that soldiers shot some native people, burnt a house and coffee crops. The locals suspect that the soldiers did so in retaliation against members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas, whom they fought with on Friday, who remained in the area.

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Indian yoga guru Baba Ramdev, center, leans out of a bus window after he was detained by police along with his supporters during a protest march against corruption in New Delhi.

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An aerial view from a remote-controlled helicopter, shows the ceremony honoring the Dutch Olympic team in Den Bosch, the Netherlands. The Netherlands won 20 medals at the 2012 London Olympic Games, including six gold medals.

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A long exposure shows stars behind a tree during the annual Perseid meteor shower near the southern town of Mitzpe Ramon, Israel.

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A boy balances on wooden stilts as he performs tricks to earn his living on a street in Kathmandu, Nepal.

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General view of the Gash River flooding in Kassala, Eastern Sudan.

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French athletes celebrate on top of a double decker bus surrounded by supporters during the French Olympic Team victory parade on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris. France finished the London Olympics Games with 34 medals including 11 gold, 11 silver and 12 bronze, and were ranked seventh in the world.

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North Korean soldiers try to drive their military truck from a riverbed to a road during operations to help victims of flooding near Songchon County, North Korea.

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Alleged hitman Juan Carlos Hernandez Pulido, aka ‘La Bertha.’

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A giant kite built of 96 individual kites flies at the beach of St. Peter-Ording, Germany. Meteorologists forecast sunny weather with a mix of clouds and temperatures around 73 degrees for the this week in Germany.

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A Free Syrian Army sniper looks through the sight on his rifle inside a house in Aleppo.

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A man with no legs begs on a roadside in Beijing. China’s slowing growth has triggered alarm bells, but analysts said government moves to further fine-tune monetary policy should be enough to stabilize the world’s second-largest economy.

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Kashmiri village women collect water chestnuts on their boats from the waters of Wular Lake at Bandipora, north of Srinagar. Water chestnuts are locally known as “singada” and are eaten raw, boiled or are grounded into flour after they are dried.

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A Palestinian man leads a horse into the water to have a bath on the beach as Palestinians enjoy a summer day at the seashore in the west of Gaza City.

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Ramoncito Campo kisses his wife Hernelie Ruazol Campo on a flooded street during a southwest monsoon that battered Manila. The newlyweds pushed through with their scheduled wedding despite severe flooding that inundated wide areas of the capital and nearby nine provinces.